malia political reporter for "washington post." crystal ball, former co-host on "the cycle." and chris wilson and contributor to the conservative online forum ricochet.com. so, thanks, everybody, for joining us. i guess we'll start, you know, congress is now the recess has begun. they're out for august. you know, who want to be in washington, d.c. in august anyway? it's 142 degrees there every day. the recess has begun and a really interesting week because around wednesday i thought i could start to see the basis. we always talk about some kind of big deal on the budget. the basis seemed to be there where there were some republicans in the senate showing willingness to compromise with the administration and then like we said, this thing got filibu filibustered to death. the caucus hasn't fully emerged there. let's start on the house side and take it one chamber at a time. what happened? when you look at the bill falling apart and moderates weren't for it and conservatives weren't for it and didn't have the 218 votes. what exactly was going on? >> i think we saw the markings o